Show us your home city's Roundabouts

[GaBoR 7]

Here in My city that is Guadalajara, Jalisco the second largest city in Mexico, we have a fascination for roundabouts, I believe that every major avenue here has at leas 2 roundabouts, this time I'll show the most Famous one of all: the Glorieta Minerva (You've all seen it here in the STEX, it's a BAT)

[jglei701 8]

Looks beautiful! I love the BAT in-game as well!

[sloppet 3]

Please keep the images @ 800x600!

[Duke87 1,070]

Well, lesse...

There's only 1 "roundabout" in Stamford, CT: At the top of Newfeild Avenue, also the bottom of Laeside Drive and the west end of Davenport Ridge Road. It's just a tiny little traffic circle, though. So much that fenderbenders and one fingered salutes are fairly common here since some people don't signal their turning properly, and many don't signal at all. There used to be another one, but it was removed in the late 90s and replaced with a normal T intersection, at the junction of Morgan Street and Strwaberry Hill Court. The sidewalk along Morgan Street still kinda veers away from the curb there, though, so evidence of it still remains.

In New York City, there are 10 traffic circles. I'm not saying waht they are, though, since I hope to use that a s a trivia question in the near future.

[Ratieya455 1]

There aren't any traffic circles in Fargo, ND, but there are proposals for at least half a dozen of them and one will be constructed this summer. This scares me, because people in this town have no clue how to merge.

[GaBoR 7]

Duke87: It's great reading your feedback, here in Guadalajara the roundabouts date from the time our city was much smaller than it is today, so the traffic can become quite a mess in rush hour, but they're very beautiful though!!!! We're very proud of the Glorieta Minerva!!!

Ratieya455: We have like a gazillion roundabouts in the city, everyone takes they're first driving lessons in one of them, and people still don't have a Clue how to merge...

[Mogwai1313 2]

Its interesting to see roundabouts in use, I am from Idaho originally, and there are very few roundabouts in the state. I have noticed in my travels throughout the United States that the further East you go, the more of them you find. Oddly enough, the further East you go, the more roadside signs you start to see. Anywho, keep posting these pics, I love 'em!

[Duke87 1,070]

You know where there are a lot of them? Cape Cod. They call them "rotaries", though.

[GaBoR 7]

Duke87: Cape Cod...I'm going to check on that, Thanks

[callagrafx 3]

Originally posted by: Duke87 Well, lesse...

There's only 1 "roundabout" in Stamford, CT: At the top of Newfeild Avenue, also the bottom of Laeside Drive and the west end of Davenport Ridge Road. It's just a tiny little traffic circle, though. So much that fenderbenders and one fingered salutes are fairly common here since some people don't signal their turning properly, and many don't signal at all. There used to be another one, but it was removed in the late 90s and replaced with a normal T intersection, at the junction of Morgan Street and Strwaberry Hill Court. The sidewalk along Morgan Street still kinda veers away from the curb there, though, so evidence of it still remains.

In New York City, there are 10 traffic circles. I'm not saying waht they are, though, since I hope to use that a s a trivia question in the near future.quote>

I've noticed Americans can only drive in straight lines...why is that?

Roundabouts, rotaries or whatever you want to call them are sometimes very handy to ensure smooth traffic flow...with the possible exception of Milton Keynes, UK..every junction is a roundabout and you can't actually get out of 3rd gear...so no chance of speeding around that town.

To the nice people who built the NAM....can we have ploppable, transit enabled roundabouts with different diameters, pretty please.

@Sloppet...bigger screen man

This has to be the best roundabout in the World...the magic roundabout in Swindon, UK...6 in one

[Dark_Jedi06 13]

Considering I live in a home "town", this is the best I could find...

Not the best quality, but that's all I could find. They're going to be replacing it with an overpass eventually considering the traffic volume and the fact that no one knows how to use it properly.

[GaBoR 7]

callagrafx: that's some ingenous roundabout!!!

dark_jedi: yep I supossed that roundabouts can be a bit of a setback for the traffic of a major city...

[callagrafx 3]

Originally posted by: GaBoR callagrafx: that's some ingenous roundabout!!!

dark_jedi: yep I supossed that roundabouts can be a bit of a setback for the traffic of a major city...quote>

I think it was invented by some bright spark in the traffic planning department as an April Fool

[giorgos69 53]

We dont like roundabouts in Athens but we are so cool that we have to have them for out Modern Infrastructure needs:

ATHENS, GREECE

[sloppet 3]

@Sloppet...bigger screen manquote>

I have 1280x1024.. The rules on this site are, that the images should be not bigger than 800x600...

[callagrafx 3]

Is that all? Still, since when does anyone actually read the rules....but if you feel that strongly about it, why don't you PM Dirk to see if he can't add an upload filter/image resizer? And, btw, who made you Sargeant Image? Posts like that are off topic and almost spam aren't they (as you didn't contribute constructively to the thread). Aren't they against the rules too....Oh and bear in mind that because all that is posted is an img src tag with a link to an image hosted elsewhere, there's a good chance the poster has NO control over image size.

[Glenni 1,447]

Well.... my hometown ,Haugesund,Norway does not exactly have any spectacular roundabouts,but theyre ok.The town itself which has like 31000 inhabitants have over 14 rondabouts. Sadly i could only find 4

Heres a picture from the roundabout where the main road through Haugesund, Karmsunds Gata(Karmsund Street) widens into a  1,5km long strech of a 4 lane avenue.

From the area of Raglamyr where all the shopping centers are.IF you wonder what that banner is for it's for the 150 year celebration,Haugesund was founded in 1854.

One of the busiest roundabouts in the city.the roundabout at where the hospital is.

This one is more or less far into the outskirts.

[GaBoR 7]

Well Seeing that the roundabouts are an oddity in general, I'll post some more... I told you we were fascinated with Glorietas here they are:

In this one (one of the biggest) soon we'll hace the largest Space Needdle in Latinamerica!!!

This ones is called La Glorieta de los Caballitos (Little Horse's Roundabout) yeah we name this things in Mexico

This one is very beautiful it's located in a residential area called Las Fuentes hence the roundabut it's called Glorieta Las Fuentes, there's a Temple, a market, a some restaureante in the area...

This one is La Glorieta de la Normal (La Normal is waht we called the University whose especialty is forming nex Teachers, I don't know if there's some like it in the US or the UK)

Well i'll leave this for today I heve more to show you all

[shivsood 5]

I live in London, where there are LOADS of roundabouts. They can be soooooooooo slow and dangerous if the traffic isn't regulated with lights

[GaBoR 7]

Yeah they could a real nightmare!!! Here are some other pics:

This one is located near the Transit General Offices of Guadalajara, go figure!

In this there is a roundabout beneath a highway

Here we have a whole park in sundays artist sell their work here

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: callagrafxI've noticed Americans can only drive in straight lines...why is that?quote>

The trouble is that many people don't know the traffic flow rules regarding roundabouts, so they often cause more problems than they solve- particularly if the raius of the circle is rather small (as the ones I mentioned from Stamford both were)

This has to be the best roundabout in the World...the magic roundabout in Swindon, UK...6 in onequote>

There's a typo there, right? You typed "best" when you menat to type "worst"?

Seriously, those things are atrocious. Way to many different directions of traffic movement in a tiny space (hello, fenderbenders!), and there really isn't anything gained from their usage. It's faster an easy for everyone if you just throw a normal roundabout in there. And again, driver confusion. Any road element thaqt requires a sign informing people how to use it is a bad idea for several reasons. People may not read the sign, may misunderstand it, or may slow down to read the sign, causing rubbernecking. It just doesn't work. Bends in the plumbing make clogs. You don't need five roundabouts. One is just fine.

[Micah 16]

Crop circles anyone?

[gerAndi 29]

Ok.

Berliner Stern

(Star of Berlin)

with the Victory Column in the center.

I don't know how this one is called but its also in Berlin.

And another one from Berlin:

And the last one is from Berlin , too. With a station on it.

[callagrafx 3]

@Duke87: If they do not know the rules, why the .... are they on the road? thats just plain dangerous. And to blame the radius is comical..most modern cars have a fairly tight turning circle and road planners are aware of it. It's just Americans drive such stupidly oversized vehicles that it takes 200 yards to turn one. Bigger is not always better.

Roundabouts are the most efficient way of prioritising traffic, especially as each feeder road gets the same crack of the whip as each other.

It is the best, because it's fun and scary in the same way a rollercoaster is...if you know how to drive, there are no issues (in the UK, we give way to the right). There are very, very few accidents on roundabout, and the majority of those are rear-end shunts rather than side impacts.

[DarkLoki 0]

Here in the netherlands officials must like roundabouts, they are everywhere. A pic of a roundabout in Assen:

I like roundabouts. In my hometown they changed a lot of traffic light crossing have been changed into roundabouts and because of that you can get past these crossing much quicker. Only on very busy crossing traffic lights are better.

[vester_DK 477]

Here in Denmark, the statistics tells that roundabouts is a lot safer and they give a lot smoother trafic. Most of the roundabouts here are without lightcontrol, but here is a few with:

Høje Taastrup

Buddinge

[einstein2000 1]

We don't have many roundabouts in the Montréal (Québec) area, but the L'Acadie blvd is probably the newest (and biggest) one!  Located in the center of the island, it is the link between Highway 40 (central highway in Montréal), the boulevard de l'Acadie, and highway 15 (linking around 500 000 people living in the north suburbs to the Montreal island... we don't see it on the picture, but it's located in the upper right corner of the picture).

Each day, there are 130 000 vehicules passing by Highway 40, 80 000 on L'Acadie blvd and around 150 000 on highway 15...

[montrouge 2]

Paris

One of most famous in the World

Place de l' Etoile

[callagrafx 3]

I've driven round that....it's more like russian roulette, only with 5 out of 6 chambers loaded...

[Duke87 1,070]

^^^yeah, really. Tons of open pavement. A practical fenderbender machine.

Obviously not designed for use by cars.